2018 – 2020 Precinct Chairs and Vice Chairs
(The Precinct Chairs and Vice Chairs are voting members of the Chisago-Isanti SD 32 Central Committee. Elected March 2018 until term expires on precinct caucus night, 2020).

SD32 State DFL Central Committee Delegates & Alternates 2018 – 2020
5 delegates and 5 alternates are elected for a 2 year term at the SD32 Convention. The Chisago-Isanti SD32 chair & vice chair are automatic delegates. If not already, these delegates and alternates are voting members of Chisago-Isanti Central Committee

Delegates:

Alternates

Jackie Harris-Rude, SD32 Chair

Michael Maden

Dave Waldoch, SD32 Vice Chair

Tom Beltt

Virginia Stark

Kim Beltt

Ken Rein

Dan Lydon

Barb Kruschel

Maggie Andrein

Congressional District 8 Central Committee members from Chisago and Isanti County SD32 2018 – 2020
5 delegates and 5 alternates are elected for a 2 year term at the SD32 Convention. The Chisago-Isanti SD32 chair & vice chair are automatic delegates. If not already, these delegates and alternates are voting members of Chisago-Isanti Central Committee

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Sarah Strommen stands proudly in a small fishing boat, a grin on her face, holding the biggest walleye of the day in her outstretched hands. The folksy photograph, taken under an overcast sky at last year’s governor’s fishing opener, belies Strommen’s heavyweight résumé, which includes a master’s degree from Duke, a Fulbright scholarship, and leadership roles with a handful of the state’s most prominent conservation groups.

But it also helps explain why Gov. Tim Walz chose the lifelong angler as his commissioner for the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). It’s a hot-seat job that requires a deep understanding of Minnesota’s passions, and she arrives at a time of testing for the state — a changing climate that could force new restrictions on walleye fishing and the looming prospect of copper mining at the doorstep of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

A federal judge ruled that the Interior Department violated federal law by failing to take into account the climate impact of its oil and gas leasing in the West.

The decision late Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras in the District of Columbia marks the first time the Trump administration has been held to account for the climate impact of its energy agenda, and it could have sweeping implications for the president’s plan to boost fossil fuel production across the country. Contreras concluded that Interior’s Bureau of Land Management “did not sufficiently consider climate change” when making decisions to auction off federal land in Wyoming to oil and gas drilling. The judge temporarily blocked drilling on roughly 300,000 acres of land in the state.

Walz, the first governor from greater Minnesota in nearly three decades, assured Orbeck and others gathered in a small conference room in St. Cloud on Thursday that he had a plan to expand public health care programs so people who earn more could use them. That’s just one of the points he and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan have highlighted as they tour the state — nine stops outside the metro this month alone — to tout a budget Walz calls “the single greatest investment in Greater Minnesota in the history of our state.”